A pedestrian takes cover from light snow showers Tuesday morning on Market Street near Rodney Square. Forecasters are calling for more snow on Wednesday.

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With up to 2 inches forecast for Delaware overnight into Wednesday, road crews were set to salt, rattle and roll before dawn.

"Anything more than an inch would put Delaware into the third largest accumulation on record," National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Heavener said Tuesday night.

Delaware so far has tallied 47.9 inches this winter, just behind the third snowiest winter in 1906-07 with 48.8 inches and second snowiest in 1957-58 with 49.5 inches, he said. The state's all-time snowiest winter was 2009-10, at 72.8 inches. ...